So you're saying that "should normally be" doesn't mean the "the
default value should normally be", but rather that "commonly,
people use".
Right, the _default_ value depends on _your_ system. On some systems,
it is one thing, and on other it is something else.
Which is why "you" (you in the sense, you or your distribution) should
have a config.site that specifies the correct thing for your system.
So maybe you would like to change it to something like:
[
This should normally be /var/run, but the default value should be
/usr/local/var/run, but write it as $(localstatedir)/run
]
Or even omit any reference to /var/run, which is just misleading, and say:
[
This should normally be /usr/local/var/run, but write it as
$(localstatedir)/run
]
Makes sense?
Not at all, since we really want it to be /var/run not something else,
but the default is different. So we want it to be /var/run, but it is
set to localstatedir/run for "special" reasons.
I don't see why we would like to mention /var/run here if we don't
mention for example /etc (we mention /usr/local/etc).
Because for "locally" installed software, the location is
/usr/local/etc -- not /etc. /var/run is special.
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